NETWORKS AND INTERNET

A very interesting and innovative History of the Web from Pär Lannerö of Metamatrix, Stockholm.
The history of the cellular phone is likely to become part of the history of computing very soon and thus here are some links [1] [2]!
"The First E-mail Message", by Todd Campbell, preText, dated 1998 (last accessed 2000/03/15). Note: I have always claimed that the first e-mail transmissions occurred between students at Dartmouth and Smith College in about 1964 using file transfer capabilities in DTSS. This article admits that there were "a number of then existing electronic message programs, the oldest dating from the early 1960s", whereas this story is about the first "inter-system" message.
Yet another "History of the Internet and Web" - a time line by Anthony Anderberg (last accessed 2000/03/15)
Two newspaper reports on the 30th anniversary of the opening of the Internet - somewhere round about 1 September 1969. [1] [2]
History of the World Wide Web by Shahrooz Feizabadi, chapter 1, of a book entitled "World Wide Web: Beyond the Basics" produced by the faculty an students of a course by the same name at Virginia Tech (1996).
Internet Histories from the Internet Society.
The 1971 book Man in the Telesphere predicted - before any others - "web" [alternatively then also suggesting "mosaic"], "links", "multi-mode media" convergence, etc, and various societal consequences. This site now contains the full text of Telesphere 1971, 108pp.
The history of the World Wide Web is the subject of an on-line book by students at Virginia Tech which is an expansion of the Internet Timeline by Robert H'obbes' Zakon.
A special page by Amdahl Corporation commemorates the 25th Anniversary of Internet and includes several links to other historic information.
A short history of the Internet by Bruce Sterling.
The Internet Society has prepared a history of the Internet.
While not exactly a history of Internet, this report by Dennis Fazio also contains a view of the development of the system.
An interesting history of networking appears in the September 1995 Issue of Crossroads.
The history of networking and usenet has been developed by Michael and Rhonda Hauben.
ARPANET and Beyond by Sean Tappendorf.